Vantaggi
This company has so much potential to be a fantastic place to work. The half day Fridays and the amount of PTO they start you out with are both fantastic benefits of working here. The flex time is great allowing you to set your own hours within reason. There are so many great people who work for this company with several years of knowledge just waiting to be passed down to younger engineers. There's so many different types of projects that you could be put on to gain a variety of knowledge and become well rounded. In my time working here, when things were going good this was a fantastic place to work and I was happy to come into work each and every day.
Svantaggi
Unfortunately the cons severely outweighed the positives of working here which inevitably led to my departure. I think my main complaint all boils down to one key element: The actions and the steps EN take never line up with what EN tells their employees. From day one you will be told how much training you are going to get and what a great training program they have. The amount of actual training I received here was slim to none. Let's say you are expected to or need to learn XYZ, you will be given a project on XYZ with minimal direction or guidance...Tada!...TRAINING! There may be certain people who know how to do XYZ, but in some of my experiences I was specifically told not to go asking specific people for help learning something due to them being too much of a burden on the project budget. This is not training, at least from my perspective. Depending on what role or department you are looking to get into they may severely underplay the amount of travel that is required or expected for the particular role. Next thing you know you are casually being put on a project that requires several months of consecutive travel. EN frequently makes statements that they are all one team or "one EN" and everyone has a path to grow, develop, and move up. In my experience there it seems that only certain disciplines are treated as valuable and given an actual career path, other disciplines are treated as only accessories to the operation. As a result great employees with several years of experience in that category left and were never replaced, only making the environment and the job for EVERYONE worse. Imagine working for a restaurant that holds its waitstaff in high regard, but does not give the kitchen staff to that same level of respect. Eventually all the good chefs are going to leave. This is going to impact the entire restaurant. Every year there are a couple company-wide meetings/presentations that sort of serve as a pep talk to everyone and to deliver big news (which I think is great by the way). And each year EN gave the same message that EN is doing fantastic, EN is such a great company, the employees are doing great, and so on and so forth...Yet each year it seemed like the raises got lower, and the promotions kept getting further and further away. Nobody wants to be told the company is doing great, get a great performance review....and get a bum raise. If the company is struggling, that is completely respectable. Clearly that is not the case. Finally, while there are great people that work here, there are some bad apples as well...and it seems to be well known. There shouldn't be verbally abusive managers or people who only work 5-6 hours a day but claim all 8. It is very apparent, but nobody seems to want to do anything about it. As a result the work is unevenly distributed. You have your good employees on too many projects and getting burnt out while others are just coasting by doing less than the bare minimum.